T.Pratt. We Are Creating Walmarts of Higher Education. The Atlantic, 2013 December 26. As colleges feel pressure to graduate more students for less money, professors worry that the value of an education may be diminished.

Does modern science discourage creativity? in blog Backreaction 2013 November 18. Respons by Luboš Motl Science needs a different creativity than arts in blog The Reference Frame. At the end Motl says: I love science the way She is, I choose to enjoy (and focus on) the things that are true, that work, that are convincing, that have a deep wisdom and I feel sorry for those who don’t enjoy science. But there’s no way how I can help them – on the other hand, I think it is possible for them to shut their mouth and stop annoying people who are not handicapped in the same way as they are. And that’s the memo.

I. Sample. Nobel winner declaree boycott of top science journals. The Guardian, 2013 December 9. Randy Schekman (US biologist who won the Nobel prize in physiology or medcine this year) says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific process.

Eric Hoover. The Millennial Muddle. The Chronical of Higher Education, October 11, 2009. How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions. Apie X, Y, Z kartas.

D. Sarewitz. Saving Science. The New Atlantis, 2016 Spring/Summer. Science isn’t sel-correcting, it’s self-destructing. To save the enterprise, scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world.

S. Wineburg. Choosing Real-World Impact Over Impact Factor. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013, August 26. The end of the article: …it’s time for those of us in the academy to stop confusing the field of education with a set of limited-circulation journals. We can no longer afford to tell ourselves that our work is done once we’ve corrected our galleys and submitted our final reports. We have important things to say but have forgotten how—and to whom—to say them. So go finish that revise-and-resubmit. But let’s not fool ourselves. Confusing impact factor with real-world impact may enhance our annual reviews, but—in the long term—may lead to our own extinction.

A brief history of Sokal’s Hoax. 2009 June 11. There are comments by G. Stolzenberg. I have never been a defender of postmodern intellectualism. I have little interest in it. (However, some by-products of my work have provided such defenses.) My concern is with the disgraceful conduct of my colleagues–mathematicians, physicists, analytic philosophers.

R. Frodeman and A. Briggle. When Philosophy Lost Its Way. The New York Times, 2016 January 11. “[T]he locating of philosophy within a modern institution (the research university) in the late 19th century. This institutionalization of philosophy made it into a discipline that could be seriously pursued only in an academic setting. This fact represents one of the enduring failures of contemporary philosophy.”